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Stephen Scott – Recent Works – by Robert Barriault 2020-05-28 I'd Really Like to Talk to You about Stephen Scott and his latest Figure Painting...
Review of my latest work by Robert Barriault- (05/20) Robert Barriault / Montreal Reflections (making photographs, thinking about art)
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More studio time 2014-09-24 More reflections upon returning to the studio of some landscape work done during the summer spent in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Studio time 2014-09-23 A look at some landscape sketches and drawings made in Sackville, New Brunswick over the summer.

End of summer — looking forward 2014-09-14 This was the second summer I had spent in Sackville visiting an area I had grown very fond of while earning my B.FA. I had spent the summer doing landscape paintings.

Where Sunny lived 2014-07-22 Cyrenus (Sunny) Robichaud is my wife's uncle. A bachelor, he has lived in the small village of Inkerman on the Acadian peninsula all of his life. He has reached the point of having to leave his house, and it is left as it was when he was living there.

Sackville School? 2014-07-07 Site of a proposed future Guild Academy of Arts. This project is an idea generated by Virgil, Meredith and myself which would develop in an effort to provide instruction for painting technique and support of a somewhat classical aesthetic philosophy.

Sackville (Reprise) 2014-06-29 As is my habit I am away from the sturm, dust and drang of the metropolis for the summer. I have returned to Sackville for a reprise of last summers adventures.

Portland Museum of Art 2014-06-16 A trip to Portland with stops at Bodoin College and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. A main feature was a retrospective of Richard Estes painting.

Stephen Paints a Picture 2014-03-12 An exhibition which included a portrait of Virgil Hammock and a number of my more important paintings. It's origin lay in a project of Virgil's and mine which centred on a 20 part text of the conversation between us while working on a Virgil's portrait, and which was available as an ebook.

Docent Talk 2014-03-02 An interesting day followed in which we spoke to the docents on the nature of the works in the exhibition at the Beaverbrook. The range of topics covered the birth of creative inspiration to technical issues.

Popup at the Beaverbrook 2014-02-08 A show curated by Virgil Hammock of my work at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. It is built around a portrait project we undertook over the past summer and involved the development of an ebook of our conversations on art during the sittings.

From the Studio 2013-06-12 Preparation for an exhibitory myself and Ann Manuel at Sunbury Shores in St. Andrews, with a studio-centered theme focusing on the creative process as it evolves from studio practice.